When I was a child, I was drawing and painting on Psychedelic Music, later in life, I started painting around The Doors, Jim Morrison, The Who and Keith Moon, Los Angeles and Jimi Hendrix. Once in L.A. I started videos around Mark Hollis of Talk Talk, celebrating the genius aspect. And now I am reporting on live L.A, shows and Jimmy Page, the genius again. My conclusion is that I am a genius and Music observer. This is what I want to share with you here.
I am telling you here my little story to help you overcome your creative blocks.
I am not saying that after this video, all your problems will have disappeared, just it will make you think a little, and maybe be a little more aware about the signs and miracles around you.
Sometimes, the bad moments are necessary to live one holy moment in our life...
Creating from the heart, this is the best way to reveal your style which is already in you.
Jennibellie is a very sympathetic English artist who had the kindness to include my work in her blog a while ago. Thanks to her last video, she allowed me to understand a little better and partly why I am creating this and now.
Am I comparing Mark Hollis in Music to Pablo Picasso and David Hockney in Painting? Yes. Mark Hollis is, according to me, a very underrated artist who showed a kind of similar creating process as these masters’ one.
Yes, we are in our new space, however the outside was not painted yet. Nothing was well organized, and the musicians' position was not right, but still, a lot of fun and interaction. It seems to me even more eccentric than before! :-)
When I paint like this, it is not only applying colors and using a technique, I also must convey the passion and the loving heart that I can hear and feel in this specific Music.
And I did it again! But this time, it is from French to English. I didn't realized until someone asked me, that most people couldn't understand this interview because of the translator's voice covering Mark's one. It is very short, but still, it is very interesting. The ancient theater in Fourviere is absolutely amazing!
You will also find here my considerations about the Sacred Music: Talk Talk, Pink Floyd.
And finally, I explain a little change in my way of working, with an artistic project to come.
It is hard to be passionate about Art and Music, and still having to work everyday like if Art didn't exist, or almost. That is what I want to change too...
My DJ and friend Ron Kane chose great musics that night, and David Strother, the violinist improvised rather well on them.
Here was our last Artwalk Night.
Unfortunately, my camera dropped dead before the end, just when a lot of people arrived and were dancing in front of my shop.
A friend of mine took a photo of a few of us in my shop:
it was a great souvenir for my Birthday, which was one day before, but I never celebrate it on the 11th because of 9/11.
All these musics that I listened to or could have listened to during my childhood are so wonderful, so full of images, conveying a form of hope and joy that we don't feel much nowadays. I am not certain that people were more joyful in the 60's or 70's but they were more spontaneous and innocent for sure.
On the Thumbnail of this video, it is a painting "The Myth of the Isle of Wight" that I made years ago about several artists playing there in 1970. It was the last time that we saw Jimi Hendrix on stage and there were The Moody Blues, The Who, The Doors and many others... Why the Myth? Because I would love to attend a festival there one day. I don't know if it is any good today, but for me, the Isle of Wight is something that I didn't do when I was still small. I easily imagine why my parents didn't want me to go! :-) I was anyway way too young.
